Flow: The Psychology of Happiness

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $7.02

  The theory of flow is that it is a means by which we can improve our lives by constantly increasing our experience of happiness. The book examines the challenges of lifelong learning, flow and the family, art, sport, work and sex as flow, the pain of loneliness, optimal use of free time and how to make meaning in our lives.

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $16.97

  What really makes people glad to be alive? What are the inner experiences that make life worthwhile? For more than two decades Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied those states in which people report feelings of concentration and deep enjoyment. His studies revealed that what makes experience genuinely satisfying is 'flow' - a state of concentration so focused that it amounts to complete absorption in an activity and results in the achievement of a perfect state of happiness. Flow has become the classic work on happiness and a major contribution to contemporary psychology. It examines such timeless issues as the challenge of lifelong learning; family relationships; art, sport and sex as 'flow'; the pain of loneliness; optimal use of free time; and how to make our lives meaningful.